LBartley: What will do what?
Also, yes ma'am.

Weclock: you can buy the games on steam and then link your previous acct to those games.

Almak: What I meant is that you would not be able to associate retail GW (and expansions) to your steam account. You can however associate your previously owned GW account to a Steam bought game. I don't see any reason as to why that wouldn't work.
Actually now that I think about it this raises a few questions. Games you buy are associated to your in-game account. And from what I read on the Steam forums Steam does not let you associate your retail games to your steam account (tried this myself, didn't work) but since there is no separation between the players on either platform in the way of servers (Steam/Retail) theoretically you would own the games associated to your steam account by the means of your in game account as long as you buy at least one GW game on steam... ook
I think I'm going to stop now before my head implodes. But one thing is for sure Steam doesn't recognise retail activation keys (or at least it didn't when I tried it).
All in all I suppose I'm the wrong person to ask. All my GW games are retail so youre probably better off listening to Weclock since he seems to be the one with the actual first hand steam GW experience.

LBartley: OK, Steam aside, because it really just seems like a senseless extra step. I have prophecies, if I buy trilogy from the NCStore, it should link up just fine with my existing account?
Does anyone know if it just ignores the fact that I already have Prophecies, or if it's cool, and lets me actually give away a key to someone else?

Rohan15: I recently made it to Lion's Arch I think, and I am level 15 Ranger/Necro named Rohan The Raven. I would love to play with some GOG members since many of us share many common interests. I have not beat any of the games since I have issues every now and then with my internet. THat, and I play plenty of other MMOS.

klaymen: I can help you sometimes with Prophecies campaign, until the final few missions it is fairly easy. In the other campaigns I was forced (well, kinda) to use help of someone else, but they're completed too. Now only the EotN campaign remains.

Rohan15: I checked I am at the Gate area near Yak's Bend.

klaymen: Send a whisper if you see me online, I might have time to help.
Names of some of my characters are ca on pages 1, 8 and maybe somewhere else too.

klaymen: Available types of guild halls
EDIT: wrong link

LBartley: This seems really stupid.
So, people who own prophecies are expected to pay another $70 to get Eye of the North, Nightfall, and Factions, while new buyers can get the whole lot for $50?
it won't just ignore prophecies and activate the other two? or, even better, spit back a spare key for Prophecies?
I bought Prophecies recently specifically to see if it could hold my interest. so far it's doing a good job, but I'm just getting started. I was wondering about my options for upgrading, but it seems only the least attractive option is valid...